Pocket check-book.



P'AENTBD AUG. v4, 1908.

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APPLICATION TIL* vso FRANK C. RHODES, 4OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

POCKET CHECK-BOOK.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 8, 1908. Serial No. 425,960.

To all whomi it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK C. RnoDss` a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the City of 'New York7 borough of Manhattan, in the county'a-nd State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Pocket. Check-Book7 of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to check books such as business men carry in their pockets for drawing cheeks against their bank deposits.

The object of the invention is to produce a check book having a construction which especially ada its it for cariving the balances forward as checks are made outand torn ci?.

The invention contemplates an arrangenientl in which a pad or block of checks is provided, which are without stubs, and upon theace of this check pad a folding flap lies A'hen the book is closed- This folding flap carries the leaves of entry sheets upon which the data. relating to each check are entered. I .also provide convenient means for separating the' entry sheets which have been used from those that have not been used, so that the check book will always open at the proper point. A

The invention consists in the construction and combination of parts to be more fully described hereinafter vand particularly set4 forth in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a partl of this specitication in which similar characters of reference indicate correspondingr parts in all the vic-rvs, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective showing the check book lying completely open; Fig. 2 isa perspective showing the booklet of entry sheets closed; Fig. 3 is a perspective showing the outer end of the cover of the entr; booklet, and illustrating the means for retaining the unused leaves of the booklet for separating them from the used leaves; and Fig. 4 is af perspective of the check book closed and in the condition in which it is carried in the pocket.

Referring more articularlv to t-he parts. 1 represents the bac of the check book which l is a substantially square or rectangular sheet of leather. Upon the upper half of this sheet er back, there is attached a check pfad attached together at their edges to forni a pad or block of common form. The part of the back 1 to which this pad is attached constitutes the upper flap or main flap 3 of the cover. The remainder of the back 1. constitutes a flap 4, and at the side edge of this flap that is, opposite the end of the pad there is bound a number of entry sheets or leaves 5 which constitute the entry booklet 5. This booklet is ruled longitudinally, as indicated, in such a wa)v as to conveniently receive the entries relating to the individual checks. The booklet is provided with a folding cover 7 and when the booklet is closed the parts lie as indicated in Fig. 2. The leaves of the booklet and its coverextend the full length of the pad. This cover 7 is a blotter having a paper back. 0n the inner side of the cover 7,` aty its outer end, a keeper strip 10 is att-ached which is slightly removed from the body of the cover so as to form a pocket 11 adapted to receive the outer or free ends of the leaves 5 in' such way as to hold the leaves against the cover. i

ln Fig. 1 the check book is represented as in use. The first sheet of the entry sheets is laid upon the flap 4 to receive the entries of the cheeks, and when this sheet is full the balances are carried forward to the next sheet of the ent-ry booklet- The sheets which have -not been used have their edges retained by the keeper strip 10 ofthe cover so that whenever the book is used it will o en at the proper point to receive entries. A ter the check has been filled out and the entry made in the entry booklet, the cover will be folded down into the position shown in Fig.-

2, and then the lower flap -t will be folded u )on the check pad so that the blotter 7 will blot the check which has just been drawn- After the check has been torn from the pad 2, the check book can be folded into the os ition shown in Fig. 4, and is then adaptefto be carried in the pocket as an ordinary check book.

It will be evident that the check book is very compact and takes up little space in the pocket. Furthermore it will be observed that the thickness becomes gradually less as the checks are used. This is not. true of 'a check book having permanentljr bound stubs from which the checks are detached, and this I consider one of the -advanta ges of the forni of check b ook described above.

Patented nag. 4, 1908.

l l i The entry sheets are ruled at'the right side for entries of deposits, while those at the left are for checks drawn.

Having thus described my 'nven'tion, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent,- A

1. A pocket check book consisting of a pad of hecks, and having a folding flap attached at a longitudinal edge thereof,- an entry booklet formed of a plurality of leaves ruled longitudinally and bound to said iap at an end thereof in substantial alinement Wit-l1 the end of said pad. y y

2. A pocket check book consisting of a ad of checks, and having a folding Hap attac led to a longitudinal edge thereof, a booklet havf ing leaves bound at an end of said flap and extendingthel full lengthof said pad, and 'a blotter attached at the said end of said Hap,

entending the full length ofsaid pad and folding into the space between said pad and said booklet.

3. A pocket cheek book having a ad of checks and having a folding flap attac ied to a longitudinal edge thereof, a booklet formed of leaves bound to one end of said flap, and a. blotter cover attached at the binding point of said leaves and having a keeper strip on three sides thereof at the free end and forining a pocket thereunder retaining the said leaves.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANK C. RHODES.

Witnesses:

F. D. AMMEN, JOHN K. BaACHvoGEL. 

